Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "NBC News" channel.

  1. No. It's not London that has allowed them in. London is not border control. It's a city. You have to look to border control, the police, MI5 and MI6 doing their job.
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  2. He didn't say anything bad. He just acknowledged that this sort of thing is happening more now in cities.
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  3. People voted for him because his policies for London were preferred to those of his opponents.
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  4. No evidence for terror sympathising. It's the police that decide what marches can go ahead.
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  5. It reminds me of George Orwell's 1984 where people could be arrested for 'thought crime'.
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  6. Michael Hayes. What he's done for London so far is: increased the London Living Wage, capped many Transport for London fares, also introduced 2 bus journeys for one fare as long as they are taken within an hour, stopped the wasteful and expensive vanity project (London Garden Bridge), ensured bus drivers changing companies have their experience recognised and don't start back on the lowest rate of pay, increased his budget contribution to the police (though he can't match the enormous cuts to that budget by the government which have resulted incuts to youth workers (500) cuts to Sure Start Centres and cuts to projects designed to keep young people away from gangs). He has increased stop and search since the increase in knife crime. He has consulted on ways to cut back air pollution. He has objectives to ensure more affordable house building. He has given considerable sums of money to charities for housing the homeless. What you need to take into account is that the government's plan is to cut central funding to local authorities down to ZERO by 2020 and cuts have been taking place for a year or two now towards that target as well as cuts driven by austerity. Also as a result of government cuts 20,000 police officer jobs have been lost since 2010. I'm not sure whether race relations are at boiling point but certainly any black person in authority appearing on the internet e.g. on youtube tends to attract a lot of racists who like to make racist comments. You could have found this out for yourself if you'd looked it up but you prefer to sit in ignorance shouting "what's he ever done for London?"
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  7. No justification for those comments Sandy239 b and AidBlade Studios. Other politicians were not brave enough to do this except with selected audiences. We need more politicians like this that don't hide away from the public at times like this.
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  8. Actually quite good so far. He's held down some fares and made others cheaper. He's raised the living wage rate and contributed £50m to housing the homeless. He's stopped that white elephant project "The Garden Bridge". He's consulting on how to lower air pollution.
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  9. He's held down fares, which are some of the highest in Europe. He's raised the London living wage rate. He's contributed £50m to a project to house the homeless. He's stopped a wasteful white elephant project "The Garden Bridge". He's not automatically in favour of building more high rise empty office blocks just so foreign investors can make a profit from the increase in their value or launder criminal money. He prefers to build affordable housing for key workers and first time buyers. He's consulting on ways to lower air pollution. All good.
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  10. Adrenaline Junkie. Bunkum. 60% of Londoners are not immigrants. Only 36.7% of the London population is foreign born.
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  11.  @firsteerr  He can't push the government for anything. He's tried but they are not prepared to grant him any concessions that might help him because they don't want the Labour party to make any progress that might benefit them electorily. Chris Grayling openly admitted that he wasn't inclined to put failing London rail systems under TfL, to improve them as Khan suggested because he didn't want to 'hand them to Labour'. The Tories think if they punish Londoners enough for voting Labour, they will switch their vote to Tory. Khan has given extra money to the police budget and is raising the Mayor's 'precept' in the London council rates to give extra money to fund the police budgets so they can tackle crime better but he's limited in the amount he can raise and it pales in comparison with the vast amount the government has cut from police budgets since 2010. Since 2010 20,000 police officers jobs have been cut due to government budget cuts to police funding. Increasing the congestion charge to cut pollution is a good idea. It hadn't been raised for years, and there's enough good public transport in London to avoid driving in many cases. I don't drive and none of my family do. I have contracted adult onset asthma though, living near a busy road in London. There are other actions he is taking to cut pollution and I will watch with interest what the outcome of those will be. He's not a dictator so he can't tell councils what to do but he has consulted on affordable housing (end of 2017), issued supplementary planning guidance to encourage it, and secured funds for spending on it. His plan is a decade long plan and he's doing a number of things towards achieving this which you can google https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/news/london-mayor-raises-grant-rates-for-housing-associations-56827, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44139669. It takes time from planning, design and approval for homes to be built so give it a chance. Again he can't dictate to TfL but though some fares have risen, others have been capped and he has introduced 2 journeys for one price bus fares, that have benefited some of the poorest people in London, especially workers on low wages. This is more than Tory Boris Johnson achieved as Mayor as he did not have even the intention to try and improve things for ordinary Londoners but concentrated on vanity and useless projects like buying old water cannons for crowd control, which could not be used, highly expensive 'Boris buses' whose windows don't open, stifling people in Summer, and the unnecessary 'Garden Bridge' which thankfully Khan dropped before even more public money was wasted..
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  12. No one could be lighter than that airhead Trump.
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  13. Zenoist2. Do you have evidence for that? I've never seen a breakdown of the votes by ethnic background. The ballot is a secret one. The problem was in Barnet, a largely white borough anyway. Barnet council would hardly do anything to deliberately assist Khan's chances as they are a Tory council and Khan won by a much bigger margin than any affected votes in Barnet. The problem arose because the council had outsourced to private companies everything they could, including management of the election. The company in charge used an outdated voting register. The council blamed the company and the company blamed the council. It was discovered because voters on the new register, but not the old, were not listed and were turned away from the voting station. It affected a few thousand people. However once the problem was realised, the new register was sent for and the voters were informed they should come back and vote later as the polling stations stay open until 10 p.m.
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  14. In what way is he a traitor?
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  15. Salzopyrin. Well that's how you come across, so I suppose you judge others by your own low standards.
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  16. Truth Seekar. You haven't yet found the truth. You don't evict a whole community for the crimes of a few -otherwise every community would face eviction.
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  17. Michael Hayes. You mean lack of integration like not standing in elections and not getting elected as Mayor, not speaking English, and by the way Khan was born in England. They seem to be criticised if they don't integrate and criticised if they do.
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  18. Michael Hayes. I said you were ignorant because you asked what had he done for London. You should have looked it up before judging him. Of course the money he gave to homeless charities was not from his own pocket. Who has money like that unless you are a wealthy Tory? However what he spends his budget on is important for Londoners. A Tory mayor would be spending it very differently. I used to work in Southwark - a very interesting area to look around. I used to walk around it in my lunch hours to see places that Dickens and Shakespeare were associated with and the lovely Borough Market. I've lived and worked in London since my early twenties. In the East End first of all and then the North of London and the Centre. I love London. I came from a working class family. I'm not sure that they voted Labour. They may have done but it wasn't discussed. I've certainly been a Labour supported since I became politically aware at the age of 14. I didn't say you were racist. I don't know whether you are or not, but there are lots of racist people commenting on every youtube video with a black politician. You can't help but notice that.
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  19. No he's not to blame. The fault lies with successive governments relaxing building regulations, with the greed of cladding firms and the indifference and neglect of the local council who are the main ones responsible for local building safety and fire safety and ignored the concerns of residents. The Mayor really didn't have a role and these panels were going up all around the country not just in London
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  20. Confesses? What a strange word to use. He is a Labour part member and candidate. It's not a confession. It's a fact. So far he has held down fares, increased the London Living Wage rate, contributed £50m to a housing project for the homeless, introduced a consultation on how to reduce air pollution. Stopped that wasteful white elephant project "The Garden Bridge" and says he intends to encourage the building of more affordable housing than more empty office blocks (which have been used as investment vehicles for foreign investors who only care that increasing property prices will increase the value of their investments, and don't care if the buildings are empty). All good in my book.
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  21. He doesn't need re-electing yet. He still has his term of office to run.
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  22. Marky Mark. Judging by some of the comments on this video alone, I guess he gets lots of death threats, and these people are angry against any figure of authority at present. Other politicians have shaken hands but only with selected audiences. He is not pre-selecting his audiences.
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  23. Well the location is in UK and the landlords are public sector landlords. Where else does public money come from? Perhaps the private sector firms involved will be fined after the Public Inquiry Results come out, but if the building regulations were so slackened that they allowed for it, then they may escape penalty.
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  24. I think this counts as libel should he wish to sue.
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  25. Generalised prejudiced comments RU. At least he's not scared to turn up and meet angry people unlike most politicians.
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  26. The landlords in the case of Grenfell Tower were the local Tory council. Khan arrived in office as Mayor of London in May 2016, 2 months after the last period referenced in the website comment.
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  27. Zenoist2. In fantasy world yes, but it didn't affect everyone in Barnet - only relatively few and not enough to change the result. You're also making the assumption that all non Muslims would vote for Khan's opponent, but many Barnet residents are sick to death of their experience of Tory rule there and people most motivated to vote are those dissatisfied with the status quo.
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  28. Deus Pigeon. She is perhaps being polite. I'll translate. There are many areas like mine, means her win could be replicated elsewhere in the country, contrary to what Nancy Pelosi was suggesting. Her opponent had a lack of presence and there wasn't sufficient listening on the ground, means he didn't do enough for people and was out of touch or just didn't listen or care. That's why he lost. The Democrats need to fight harder for the people they represent. She's unhappy that the supreme court appointments will mean domination of Trump supporters and the possibility that they will take away some of the existing rights women have. She defines democratic socialism. What she says on that seems straightforward -more public services and rights for people basically. She's asked who the next speaker of the house should be but said she needs time to consider that bearing in mind what the options will be when the time comes, and the fact that she's not yet elected to Congress.
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  29. What is your evidence for that? If you have evidence you need to report it to the police rather than writing libel on youtube.
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  30. People will take any old dangerous drug but are scared of the Covid vaccine. Where's the logic?
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  31. Rubbish English and rubbish statement
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  32. Simple not simplistic. Simplistic means overly simple. It's a criticism.
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  33. Bob Yorke. Hardly just a fridge fire. The whole building burnt down and killed a lot of people because of the poor cladding on the outside and lack of any measures to stop the fire spreading in spite of people raising these risks with the council over a long period. They weren't listened to. Don't you know anything? Don't you read any news?
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  34. I think it was on the BBC online news at least. I remember seeing it.
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  35. ERCOT were never boy scouts. Motto: 'Be Prepared'. They prefer to demonstrate the faults in 'go it alone' unregulated capitalism (energy sector).
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  36. He's not been in office that long and the causes of the Grenfell Tower disaster go back to the gradual loosening of the building regulations by governments, the greed and corruption of firms cladding these buildings, the local Tory council's indifference and neglect and the Tory mentality that thought it a great idea to reduce all the local health and safety resources that used to protect people from jerry building. It's nothing to do with the Mayor. He's just there to show sympathy and good will.
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  37. He has no responsibility for years of Tory neglect. He's taking responsibility for doing something now.
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  38. What is your evidence for that statement?
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  39. Salzopyrin. Wow. Aren't you the ignorant one. A person resorts to personal insults once they've lost the argument.
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  40. It's anger to anyone at this stage. They know he's not responsible. He doesn't have any role in it but they will be angry at anyone seen as a figure of authority at the moment, because their concerns about the building were ignored by the authorities for so long. It's the local council (Tory) that had responsibility and that showed indifference. The Mayor does not control them. You won't see Tory councillors making themselves available to anger in public like that. Actually the original council leaders were sacked for lack of action, even after the disaster.
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  41. Seems like they want a dictator or they can't handle the truth.
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